Rundgang: Check Instead: the Colonial Matrix of Power!

Check Instead: the Colonial Matrix of Power!

Do, 21.01.2010, 20.00 h:

Panel: Check Instead: the Colonial Matrix of Power!* VBKÖ, 21.01. 2010 at 20h

Panelists: Miltiadis Gerothanasis (anonymous), Marina Grzinic (artist and theoretician, Vienna/Ljubljana), Therese Kaufmann (theoretician, eipcp Vienna), Marissa Lobo (anonymous) and other project participants

Moderators: Ana Hoffner (artist) and Ivana Marjanovic (PhD student, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)

The panel discussion will deal with following issues:

What are the (violent) cultural/artistic interventions in spaces outside of the First Capitalist World that are taking place in the present? What is the logic behind interventions of private financial institutions in artistic and cultural space of so-called Southeastern Europe? What is their relation to public institutions? How can we understand these interventions within the framework of re-awakened Austrian imperialist aspirations? How are interventions by actors other than governments and private financial institutions (for example artists, curators) connected to coloniality and western exceptionalism? How would an artistic intervention which de-links from the global capitalist understanding of intervention look like? What are or would be counter-strategies?